SkyWater Makes Brad Ferguson its Chief Technology Officer

Thomas Sonderman, SkyWater President testified to his exceptional abilities and drive for technical leadership, as well as his skills in various other areas including impressive management, strategic thinking, relationship and communications skills.

The most reliable partner for the future’s most advanced technology solutions, SkyWater Technology Foundry, just revealed today, that Dr. Brad Ferguson has been made the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SkyWater.

In this new jurisdiction,
he will concentrate on developing the company’s technology roadmap and IP
strategy in better ways. He would do this by recognizing high growth markets
for SkyWater’s Technology Foundry business and as well continue to lead
SkyWater’s efforts in government relations effort.

Just recently, Dr.
Ferguson worked as the Senior Director of Sales for SkyWater. He was responsible
for government relations strategy as well as sales in the custom foundry line
of business at SkyWater. He began his career at Cypress Semiconductor, in
photolithography process development. In the year 2008, he developed the
Cypress Foundry Solutions business to supply differentiated technology to
high-tech innovators. This has increased to be almost 40% of SkyWater’s
revenue. Dr. Ferguson was also the major driver of the accreditation process to
achieve Trusted Foundry status from DMEA. This was a major landmark for the
company’s entry into the aerospace and defense market, a very pillar of
SkyWater’s market strategy.

Dana Nazarian,
Executive Vice President, Operations & Technology, Cypress Semiconductor
and member of SkyWater’s Board of Directors expressed pleasure at the turn out
of events; mentioning how Brad created the custom foundry line of business at
Cypress, just before the spin-off of SkyWater. It helped shape it for a
reasonable number of years into a growth engine for the company.

Dr. Brad Ferguson
himself also expressed how pleased he was that the custom foundry business had
grown over the past 11 years. He talked about how excited he was to also take
on his leadership position, within the organization.

He noted that this
is one period where the tech landscape is becoming increasingly diverse and the
rate of disruptive innovation is accelerating. He said he looked forward to
leading the technology as well as the IP roadmaps of the company for continual
development of offerings innovators require to bring their ideas to market for
the next wave of hybrid technologies.